The Masters athlete in Olympic weightlifting: Training, lifestyle, health challenges, and gender differences [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundOlympic weightlifting requires strength, speed, and explosive power. Vigorous physical activity such as Olympic weightlifting, for older adults has many benefits from improved strength, social interactions, and a healthy and independent ...
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Capturing the holistic profile of high performance Olympic weightlifting development [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Recent expertise development studies have used retrospective recall methods to explore developmental biographies and/or practice histories of current or past athletes.
Dior N. Jnr Anderson +3 more
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Sex differences and impact of body mass on performance from childhood to senior athletes in Olympic weightlifting [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundOlympic weightlifting requires technical skills, explosive power, strength, and coordination. Weightlifters can be competitive within a range of morphological characteristics due to competition body weight classes.
Marianne Huebner, Aris Perperoglou
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Performance Development From Youth to Senior and Age of Peak Performance in Olympic Weightlifting [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 A total of 3,782 performance results for male and female weightlifters, ages 14–30 from 123 countries, from Youth, Junior, and Senior World Championships and Olympic Games 2013–2017 were used to estimate the age at peak performance in Olympic ...
Marianne Huebner, Aris Perperoglou
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“I'm not too old to lift”: exploring lifelong involvement in Olympic weightlifting through the serious leisure perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroductionThis study explores the lifelong involvement of older adults in Olympic weightlifting (OW) with the aim of understanding the factors that motivate them to initiate and sustain participation across their lifespan, as well as the challenges ...
François Gravelle, George Karlis
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Age-associated Performance Decline and Sex Differences in Olympic Weightlifting [PDF]
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2019 ABSTRACT Introduction The rate of decline in physical performance for women is thought to be faster than that for men at any age in the Masters age classes in weightlifting and other sports. We quantified the age-associated decline in Olympic weightlifting separately for women and men and investigated possible impact ...
David Meltzer +2 more
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Journal of European Psychology Students, 2019 This study examines, through in-depth interviews, the mental preparation of seven Cypriot non-elite Olympicstyle weightlifters. Mental preparation is important in sport, as it can help athletes reach peak performance.
Phivos Phylactou
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The Effects of Short-Term Heavy Load Squat vs. Moderate Load Olympic Weightlifting Training on Maximal Strength and Force–Velocity Profile in Young Female Handball Players [PDF]
Journal of Functional Morphology and KinesiologyObjectives: This study examined changes in maximal strength and the force–velocity (FV) profile in young female handball players following an in-season heavy load squat or a moderate load Olympic weightlifting short-term training intervention. Methods: A
Gergely Pálinkás +4 more
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Field-Based Biomechanical Assessment of the Snatch in Olympic Weightlifting Using Wearable In-Shoe Sensors and Videos—A Preliminary Report [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Traditionally, the biomechanical analysis of Olympic weightlifting movements required laboratory equipment such as force platforms and transducers, but such methods are difficult to implement in practice.
Cheng Loong Ang, Pui Wah Kong
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Individual variation in the cortisol response to a simulated Olympic weightlifting competition is related to changes in future competitive performance [PDF]
Biology of Sport, 2019 The cortisol (C) and testosterone (T) responses to experimental stress have been linked to sport and health outcomes several days to years later. Here we examined the utility of these biomarkers, taken across a simulated Olympic weightlifting (OWL ...
Blair T Crewther +4 more
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